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...... Plato and Aristotle do share some views. As we consider both Platos conception of ethics as show by such texts as The Republic and Aristotles conception of just behavior in his Nichomachean Ethics, it is clear that both arguments are predisposed to an interest in the collective or shared availability of happiness in the end result of a process or interaction. However, as an important distinction, Aristotle recognizes the variances which appear to define our establishment of the means to pursuing happiness, or as our text rather explicitly argues, Aristotle was more down-to-earth than Plato; he looked for ultimate truths in the world of human experience and was certain that human senses can know what is true and good. (36) It was, this is to denote, Aristotles centering perspective that human beings are the arbiters of ethicality and such related forms as social justice, proper governance, friendship and business. Where Plato spoke of ethics as coming to us from certain otherworldly realms and implicating preexistent forms of rightness, Aristotle imagined an ethicality which actually left room for individual interpretation, providing history with a philosophical orientation altogether more adaptable to rational changes in human culture and to open discourse on

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